# Composal vs Cypress

Cypress gives developers a local and CI-oriented code framework with browser snapshots and test-run visibility. Composal offers hosted plain-English Scenarios plus separate Discovery and exploratory Deep Scan workflows.

## Composal

Composal sends AI browser agents to use your running web app and check the outcomes you care about. Define journeys as plain-English Scenarios, map existing flows with Discovery, or explore for bugs with Deep Scan. Runs keep recordings and reproduction steps so your team or coding agent can investigate a Finding.

[Verify documentation](https://composal.com/docs/verify)

## Cypress

JavaScript end-to-end and component testing

Cypress provides a JavaScript test runner for end-to-end and component testing in browsers. Its product documentation describes interactive debugging, recorded test artifacts and a dashboard for CI test results.

## What each tool does

| Workflow | Composal | Cypress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Run browser journeys](https://composal.com/product/scenarios) | ✓ Yes: Run saved browser Scenarios and return recordings and reproducible Findings. | ✓ Yes: Runs browser end-to-end tests and supplies a documented test runner and cloud execution workflow. |
| [Map application workflows](https://composal.com/product/discovery) | ✓ Yes: Discovery maps key application areas and user journeys. | – Not confirmed: UI Coverage identifies test coverage gaps; check application workflow mapping separately. |
| [Explore for unexpected issues](https://composal.com/product/deep-scan) | ✓ Yes: Deep Scan explores the running application and reports reproducible issues. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Describe checks in plain English](https://composal.com/product/scenarios) | ✓ Yes: Author Scenarios around the intended user outcome, then review the steps and expected results. | ✓ Yes: cy.prompt converts natural-language steps into executable Cypress commands. |
| [Run or inspect from a terminal](https://composal.com/product/cli) | ✓ Yes: Use the CLI to start and inspect verification runs and their Findings. | ✓ Yes: Cypress Cloud CLI supports terminal-based AI-agent triage; Cypress also runs tests from CLI. |

With setup means you supply code or configuration. Not confirmed means support for this workflow needs checking with the vendor.

## Where each fits

Choose Cypress when developers want a JavaScript-owned test suite and debugging directly within their application workflow. Choose Composal when teams need hosted browser verification and findings that coding agents can use.

## Try this evaluation

Implement a checkout outcome in Cypress and as a Composal Scenario. Add a separate role-based defect; compare test authoring, replayable run context and the value of exploratory evidence for the uncoded path.

### Coverage

Which user outcomes must this release prove, and which specialist checks must stay in your existing stack?

### Setup

Who prepares accounts, test data, permissions and access to the deployment being tested?

### Evidence

Can the engineer reproduce a reported failure from the recording and steps, without asking the tester to investigate again?

### Ownership

Who updates the checks when the product changes, and can the team review what a passing result actually proves?

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